Description

- The ultimate insider's guide to London's hidden art treasures for locals and experienced travelers

- Features interesting and unusual places not found in traditional travel guides

- Part of the international 111 Places series with over 650 titles and 3.8 million copies in print worldwide

- Appeals to both the local market (more than 8.9 million people call London home) and the tourist market (around 30 million people visit London every year!)

- Fully illustrated with 111 full-page color photographs

The hidden art of London is for the ever-curious roamer of both the back streets and the familiar places you never quite see - churches, gardens, graveyards, pubs. What little garden finds the poet John Keats sitting in the corner of a bench? Which abandoned building tells the story of a great Roman Road? There are always marvels hidden in plain view - the back corner of a museum containing great sculptures by Rodin or the naked, street-corner golden boy, who marks where the Great Fire of London finally petered out. A famous literary cat or a painting by Hogarth on the bend of a stairs in an ancient hospital. This guidebook takes you exploring London beyond its most famous sights to find the art we have never quite noticed before: the hidden statues, paintings, and murals that have escaped from the official museums, and often live unnoticed lives in tucked away places.